Store pattern to use later again: – open the Find dialog, compose and test your RegEx pattern. – click at [Replace >>] – click at [Batch >>] – click at [Add to Batch], your pattern is now in the list

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Load a stored pattern: – open the Find dialog – click at [Replace >>] – click at [Batch >>] – double click on an stored pattern to add that to the Find: box – click at [<< Batch] – click at [<< Find] – you are now ready to start the find process

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Extra Tip: You can even Export (store) your collection to a *.TSV file (e.g. RegExPattern.tsv) and exchange it with others and Import (load) it any time later you need it. I on my own have even create a sub folder in my EmEditor folder for such files, and named it \BatchReplace to store such TSV files.

To add a name or an hint to your stored regex, you can utilize “Named Groups” feature in the .Net framework syntax:

If your regex has many groups, keeping track of their numbers can get cumbersome. Make your regexes easier to read by naming your groups (?<name>pattern) or (?’name’pattern) (pasted from http://www.regular-expressions.info/named.html)

We just use that “Named Group” feature to add an comment to our regex pattern, we even utilize that “Named Group” feature without adding an regex pattern to it, but just using the comment feature.